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TIL Samuel L. Jackson Once Held Martin Luther King Jr.'s Father Hostage During A Campus Protest

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KOWp4 TIL silent film star Harold Lloyd performed his stunts in the 1923 film Safety Last! effectively one-handed due to losing his right thumb and index finger while holding a bomb for publicity pictures four years earlier
Nar1 TIL a physical education teacher in Texas wore the exact same disco-era polyester shirt and coffee-colored sweater vest in his school picture for 40 years in a row, until his retirement in 2013.
R55Oa TIL the oldest person to finish an Ironman triathlon was 85 years old
XGVR TIL that one of the first franchise restaurants is the Chicken in the Rough restaurant chain which started in the 1930s. There are still four left
d8j6j TIL that the phrase "blood is thicker than water" is not what you think it means (at least in its original context)